Word: wright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instantly confronted by brilliantly colored likenesses of such assorted characters as Boccaccio, Gautama Buddha, Mayor Carter of Santa Monica, Adam & Eve, Cinemactress Gloria Stuart, Bach, Michael Faraday, Senator John P. Jones, Leo Carrillo, Michelangelo, Confucius, and Viola Player Samuel Lifschey. All this was the effort of Stanton Macdonald Wright, co-founder 22 years ago of the Synchromist movement in art, to wind Man's Imaginative and Inventive Development round four walls and over an information desk...
...Artist Wright, pale, stoop-shouldered, with greying hair and a clipped black mustache, is a nephew of the late great Art Collector & Railroad Tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington. His father, Archibald Davenport Wright, was an amateur painter, architect, and builder of the Southern Railroad. His brother is Willard Huntington Wright, better known as "S. S. Van Dine," author of the Philo Vance detective stories. Artist Wright loathes Writer Wright's stories. Maintaining the family independence, Father Wright never looked at anything that his sons produced...
Macdonald Wright was born in Charlottesville, Va. in 1890, went first to Santa Monica when he was 11. At 15 he and his brother Willard were expelled from school. The next year found young Wright an art student in Paris where he made two lifelong friends. Thomas Benton and Morgan Russell. In 1913 he, with Artist Russell, invented a new art movement called "Synchromism" which was apparently another effort to create illusion through the use of color alone. Same year, wearing a long white robe, sandals, a flowing beard and a jade necklace, he held his first Synchromist exhibition...
...Synchromist Wright returned to the U. S. Four years of New York nearly killed him. A nervous wreck, he went back to Santa Monica on crutches where he cured himself with the climate and a sober study of Buddhism. For many years director of the Santa Monica Community Theatre and the Los Angeles Art Students' League, he gradually gave up beard, long hair and artistic mannerisms, adopted a hard, exact manner of drawing that showed a strong Oriental influence...
Seven years ago Artist Wright went to the directors of the Santa Monica library, offered to paint murals in the reading room free as a memorial to his father. The offer was abruptly refused. Last year he made his offer again, provided that he be reimbursed for the cost of paints, canvas, white lead, etc. Regional PWA Director Merle W. Armitage headed a committee that raised $1,000, and last week the murals were up, 2,000 sq. ft. of them, in 38 panels...